Essentiality of Mineral Mixture Supplement to White Fish Meal Diet for Tiger Puffer

Abstract

The essentiality of mineral mixture supplement to a white fish meal diet for tiger puffer Takifugu rubripes was investigated. Fish were fed on the white fish meal diet with or without a mineral mixture supplement for 10 weeks. Growth was significantly inferior in the mineral non-supplemented group to the supplemented group. Lower hepatosomatic index and higher hemoglobin and hematocrit values were found in the non-supplemented group. Plasma P and Mg contents and bone ash, P, and Ca contents were lower in the mineral non-supplemented group. Bone deformities were observed in most of the fish of non-supplemented group. So, the mineral mixture supplement was found to be essential in a white fish meal diet for tiger puffer.